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LGBTQ+ community ‘devastated' by Trump push to end specialized suicide hotline services
The White House proposed maintaining the same overall funding for the 988 suicide prevention hotline, but ending specialized services for LGBTQ+ youth and young adults who call.
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Mass. community leaders condemn Trump push to end specialized services for LGBTQ+ 988 callers
The White House has put forward a new budget proposal that would cut specialized suicide hotline services for the LGBTQ+ community.
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White House proposes axing 988 suicide hotline services for LGBTQ youth
The specialized suicide-prevention counseling service for LGBTQ youths and young adults received more than 1.3 million contacts since the program’s start in 2022, advocates said.
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Community members stand with Newburyport church after pride flag vandalized
Vandals tore down a pride flag and damaged the building at the First Religious Society Church.
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Judge blocks Trump from enforcing anti-DEI, anti-trans executive orders
A federal judge in California has blocked the Trump administration from enforcing anti-diversity and anti-transgender executive orders that LGBTQ+ rights organizations say are unconstitutional. U.S. District Judge Jon Tigar said that the grant funding provisions reflected an attempt to censor constitutionally protected speech and services. Several nonprofit groups serving LGBTQ+ health care sued President Donald Trump in February. They are...
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As a generation of gay and lesbian people ages, memories of worse — and better — times swirl
As World Pride wraps up this weekend in Washington D.C. the older LGBTQ+ generation can sometimes find a hard time fitting in among the after-parties and DJ sets.
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Nonprofit provides housing for LGBTQ+ young adults in Provincetown
Summer of Sass is expanding with the goal of helping people at home and beyond.
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‘The L Word' stars Leisha Hailey and Kate Moennig are ‘So Gay for You' in joint memoir
When “The L Word” debuted on Showtime in January 2004, gays and lesbians couldn’t serve openly in the military, employees could be fired for being gay in most of the country and no state had yet begun issuing same-sex marriage licenses.
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Puerto Rico federal court allows ‘X' as a third gender choice on birth certificates
Activists are celebrating a decision by Puerto Rico’s federal district court to allow nonbinary and gender nonconforming people to update their birth certificates. The ruling comes after a group of six nonbinary people filed a lawsuit against Puerto Rico’s governor, its health secretary and other officials. The ruling means that nonbinary and gender nonconforming people will now be able to...
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Trans people, local governments and educators face rising anti-LGBTQ hate, GLAAD report finds
There were 932 anti-LGBTQ incidents across the United States over the past year — from hate speech and bomb threats to fatal violence — with more than half of these acts targeting transgender and gender-nonconforming people, according to a new report from the LGBTQ advocacy group GLAAD.
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Mother of murdered son in gay bar slayings finds long-awaited peace in sentencing
Linda Clary’s son, John Umbeger, was one of two men murdered in a drug-induced robbery scheme that plagued New York City’s gay bars in 2021 and 2022.
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Yosemite climbers unfurl transgender pride flag on iconic El Capitan
A group of LGBTQ climbers and advocates hung a large transgender pride flag in the middle of Yosemite’s famous El Capitan rock formation on Tuesday.
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Transgender women soccer players to be banned from teams in England, Scotland
Transgender women will be banned from playing on women’s soccer teams in England and Scotland, the sport’s governing body said Thursday.
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World Pride events pulled from Kennedy Center for LGBTQ+ safety
Organizers said they are moving a week’s worth of events for World Pride DC away from the Kennedy Center.
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Big Queer Food Festival returns to Boston!
Award-Winning Chef Tiffani Faison stops by to share what Boston foodies can expect at the annual Big Queer Food Festival.
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Supreme Court appears poised to rule for parents who objected to LGBTQ content in elementary schools
The Supreme Court on Tuesday appeared likely to rule for parents who objected on religious grounds to books made available in a school district’s elementary schools that feature stories about gay and transgender characters.
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Pope Francis created a ‘seismic shift' toward acceptance, LGBTQ Catholics say
LGBTQ Catholics and theologians said the late pontiff’s legacy teaches that change can happen when leaders are willing to listen.
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Proposal on ban for trans student athletes in Mass. pushed for more study
House Democrats used a procedural maneuver on Wednesday that essentially put on ice a freshman Republican’s push to ban transgender students from playing sports on teams consistent with their gender identity.
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Trans pilot falsely blamed in D.C. plane crash sues conservative influencer
Military pilot Jo Ellis said she had to hire private armed security for her family because of the false claims, which went viral on social media.
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Openly gay soccer player still faces online death threats
The first openly gay man to play in Australia’s domestic soccer league says he’s still subject to death threats four years after going public about his sexuality.